Essential software everyone should try!

[shovenose]

Windows:
-Comodo Internet Security (Free) AntiVirus + Firewall in one great product
-Adobe Dreamweaver (Paid) Great web design software
-FileZilla FTP (Free) Stable FTP client
-OpenOffice (Free) Good replacement for Microsoft Office
-LibreOffice (Free) OpenOffice Clone
-Paint.net (Free) easy to use basic image editing, slightly better than MS Paint...
-GIMP (Free) free Photoshop replacement. Very complicated lol
-CCleaner (Free) Speed up and de-error-ify your PC
-RealPlayer (Free) Download YouTube movies
-Skype (Free) Great way to keep in touch, and it was just bought by Microsoft!

Mac:
-NeoOffice (Free) OpenOffice ported to Mac


Linux:
-IDK about this

[RWenger]

-Comodo Internet Security (Free) AntiVirus + Firewall in one great product

Never tried it. I always use Norton.

-Adobe Dreamweaver (Paid) Great web design software

I've never needed it as I can code.

-FileZilla FTP (Free) Stable FTP client

Excellent.

-OpenOffice (Free) Good replacement for Microsoft Office

I've never liked it. I prefer office.

-Paint.net (Free) easy to use Photoshop replacement.

I use GIMP.

-CCleaner (Free) Speed up and de-error-ify your PC

Excellent.

-RealPlayer (Free) Download YouTube movies

Never really used it.

-Skype (Free) Great way to keep in touch, and it was just bought by Microsoft!

Hard to register for me, so I haven't used it.

[shovenose]

I know plenty of HTML/CSS but dreamweaver is an easier environment to code in that say Notepad or something like that.
Norton? Are you crazy? c_hegge likes it too...
I think it slows down the computer too much but i havent tried any recent version so i dont know...

[Kong]

Dreamweaver is VERY good for website development (as Shovenose mentioned).

I use Adobe Fireworks to make cool art such as the on in my signature.

Edit: I really despise Norton, especially when they ripped XBOX 360's name and made their product "Norton 360" - which is even worse than the predecessors.

[Klinc]

Hiron Boot cd - All the malware removal tools, hardware trouble shooting, disk recovery, disk managing, a live xp boot option, boot recovery and hundreds more.
http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hiren ... D.13.2.zip

Blue screen viewer - it tells you the files causing the BSOD. So no guessing and taking your pc apart testing ram and such crap.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bluescreenview_setup.exe


Spybot Search and Destroy - good for removing dailers and bots
http://www.filehippo.com/download_spybo ... h_destroy/

Also on Hiron Boot cd

[Morsec0de]

Some nice choices, these are my top software choices:

- Notepad++ Great for developers/web masters
- CCleaner Keeps your computer clean and free of rubbish
- Advanced SystemCare Disk defragmentation, Spyware/Malware Removal, Junk file removal - great software
- FileHippo Update Checker Find updated software without manually going through your programs looking for updates
- Kaspersky Internet Security All your security software in one
- QFX Software KeyScrambler If you get keylogged, it stops people seeing what you're typing, helpful when typing sensitive information.

[shovenose]

Which ones are free?

[Morsec0de]

Which ones are free?

All the ones that I mentioned are free, except Kaspersky Internet Security. Some of the above offer a paid version as well though.